"Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield."

-- David Gemmell

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Pain Quotes

“pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand -- and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know ...”
“It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.”
“It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and had no work ,no money, you know the story because you're heard it before.”
“There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE.”
“My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.”
“Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow.”
“Having faith in God means trusting in Him even when everything inside of you wants to take control.”

Source : "A conversation with Carolina Hurricanes goalie Dan Ellis". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. March 2013.
“I usually know when I take the picture. There's always some kind of un-self-conscious thing going on, so that it doesn't look like they're there for the sake of having their portrait taken.”

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